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Shadow Drop

Watch the shadows. Grab the gems.

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  • Players: 1–8 players; bots fill the empty seats
  • Full game: about 2 min
  • Quick version: about 1½ min
  • Easy to pick up

Giant shapes land on the growing shadows: step aside and grab the gems. Squashed, you lose half your gems for anyone to take. Dash out from under a shadow, or shove a rival under one. The sky gets busier every 15 seconds. In the Quick game, the most gems wins.

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How to start

  1. Open Gonfetti on your phone and start a room. Bots fill the empty seats, so you can play right away. Nothing to install.
  2. Friends join with the room's link or code, each on their own phone, side by side or far away.
  3. Or put Gonfetti on a TV, laptop or tablet everyone can see: everyone scans the QR code, and their phone becomes their controller. Gamepads and keyboards work too.

How to play Shadow Drop

Grab the most gems while giant shapes drop where the shadows grow.

How you win: the Quick game is 90 seconds, and whoever holds the most gems at the end wins. The full game is different: you have lives (3 in Classic, 5 in Long, 1, 3 or 5 in Custom), a squash or a fall costs one, landed shapes stay as walls (Custom can turn them off), and the last one in wins (if the clock runs out first: most lives, then most gems).

  1. Grab the gems

    Gems drop onto the floor. Touch one to take it: the number on your card goes up.

  2. A shadow means a shape is coming

    A dark shadow grows on the floor. When the ring round it is full, a giant cube, cone or star lands right there.

  3. Don't get squashed

    Caught under it, you're flat for 2 seconds and half your gems fly out, for anyone to grab. Step out in time, or dash out.

  4. It gets busier

    Every 15 seconds more shapes fall: rows of shadows, shadows that slide (arrows show the way), and some aimed right where you stand.

  5. Mind the edge

    Fall off the floor and you're back a second later, but half your gems are gone.

Your controls

  • Movethe stick, WASD, the arrow keys, pointing with the mouse or the on-screen stick
  • Dash a burst of speed: out from under a shadow, to a gem, or into a rivalA, Space, Enter, a click or the Dash button
  • Brace stop and dig in: you are hard to shove under a shadow (it does not stop a falling shape)hold B, Shift, the mouse's right button or the Brace button

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